The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.
Good science is boring, good politics is boring, good espionage is boring, good journalism is boring, good history is boring, good banking is boring, good business is boring. Entertainment serves us this pop view of the world…
But wikipedia is more valuable than all the LLM slop machines combined.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2 days ago
Great article, would highly recommend anyone with the time give it a full read through.
Wikipedia is incredibly valuable, and insanely well edited and put together, and we're all lucky to have something like it available for free.
fluxion@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And their merch is 🔥, just saying.
Tacoma@feddit.org 2 days ago
Where are the [citation needed] stickers, though?
einkorn@feddit.org 2 days ago
They have what?
Here we go! Dang, they even got pins!
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Yoooo store.wikimedia.org/products/internet-in-a-box
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
CONTINUE READING WITH A VERGE SUBSCRIPTION AND SUCK MY FAT COCK
DeadPixel@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Thanks for encouraging to read the whole thing. That is a loooong article! But a great informative read. Took me a couple of sittings to read it all properly, well worth it!
I had no idea about so many of the challenges they’ve gone through & seemingly managed to fight back so many attempts to control & mask the content on more volatile subjects. Always had a lot of respect for the editors, but even more so now.
I do donate a small amount to them once or twice a year. I think I will try to increase my donations going forward knowing it might help with some of their legal fights.
Knowledge really is power, & we all deserve access to true knowledge, more now than ever it seems.
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Lots of it is still pretty shit, but that’s what happens when you have an entry on incredibly obscure things where there’s not a lot of sources information.